A Different Kind of Comment Spam »
In the course of about 15 minutes today, I received two comments that were in general agreement, yet each comment was left with a different name and email address. The incriminating evidence? The comments came from the same IP address.
Now it's likely that these commenters are simply of like minds and having some sort of party, and out looking for places to support their single-minded vision.
It's also remotely possible that each of these were users of the same ISP, who happened across my blog just minutes apart and commented on the same entry. Extremely unlikely, but possible.
The final option is that these commenters share the same view, and are in fact spammers of a new sort - ones that espouse their views in generally legitimate-sounding comments. This serves not to promote a link, but to enhance web results for a particular search.
As mentioned, this might not be the case - but it's a bit odd nonetheless. I'll leave the comments for now. But if it seems to increase, then it is a whole new frontier of comment spam - one that's going to be nigh impossible to fight.
Comments (1)
You're not going to link to the post so we can comment?
Posted by Ted on April 16, 2005 10:14 PM